The Osceola times., 1887-09-24
ITEMS ABOUT WoMru

Miss LUCIA I. ANEs in the ~
ans Journal, gives graphic ns, "%
traits of three Boston girls f'"'p'H
Mrs. JAMES G. BLAINE, Jr
of the most enthusiastic Of pbo,onons ons
ic amateurs. and her flower nis,s aps
form collection worth examinins r,su'e
QUEEN CARoLA, of Saxopv haS
tablished a free kindergarten for ~
bcnetit of children Of poor laboror. 'ns m
her estate, Sibyllenort where sbs =. W
nually spends part Of the summer '~
Miss CHARLOTTE MORRILL,. Of R,o.,
lyn. whose paper received such % NJ.
versal notice at the Mt Holyoke som,
centennial, has been spoken Of a. %
possible successor Of Miss Frcem,o
president Of Wellesley College. "
MBs. EMMA z DAVIS, OF Har,,o,
Conn, has brought suit agains, N,
publishers of the IIoyoke 7raus,,,',
for $4,000. because Of certain articls.
published in the transcript last Fobrn
ary. which she considers Jefama,ory
Mrs Z. L. SAXON rendered mo.,
effective service to the suffrage c.r.,
in Kansas before the passage Of ,bs
municipal suffrage bin there. She b,.
since made her home in Kansas on A..
count of the justice done to women IN
that State.
Miss KATE FIELD lectured in Alasl,
to a large and attentive audience. Bsr
subject was IAN Evening with
Dickens" 1t was a strange sight IN
the Mining C;smp of juneau, Ina
largest town in Alaska, to hear a
woman's lecture.
Mrs. MARY p. BABcocx has pre.
sented to the Northwestern University
the herbarium Of her husband, the late
Prof. Henry IL Babcock. The herb,. :
rum contains more than ten thousand
species, aud the plants are mounted in
excellent form. They are from all
parts Of thc'world. Prof. Babcock was
the most eminent botanist in Chicago
Miss SARAH EwrNG, Of the Sampson
Manufacturing Company's shoe shop,
in North Adams, has won the prize
offered by button machine company,
for the operative who. on one Of their
machines, would sew on the most but.
tons in one day Of ten hours. Miss
Ewings record was q, LA buttons, an
average Of forty-five and one-fourth
for each minute in the day.
Mrs. ELIZABETH PoTrERGouID tells
pleasantly how she became sui.
fragist by attending suffrage sociabls
OF the Massachusetts Woman Suffrage
Association and becoming acquainted
with the members. whom, she found
very much like other people. She
found them neither odd nor 'shrek.
ing" but quietly and earnestly trying
TO win friends to their cause.
Mrs. SIMEON FARwEi.L, of Chicago
gives a fifty-dollar cash prize to that
member Of the Ossol Society (exclu.
sively ladies) who shall write and read
the best English essay. II is needles
to say that this contest, next 10 Kirk
is the most popular. The Methodist
Church, with q seating capacity Of
twelve hundred, is always crowded
The last prize was taken by Miss Cora
L. Allen. of Turner Junction, III.
Mrs. JAMES BENNETT, of Richmond.
Ky, "believes it TO be the viii OF our
Heavenly Father that women shall OBJ
tain suffrage and the equal protection
Of the laws by public appeals to the
godlike sentiments of justice, mercy
and love in the hearts of men," has ad.
dressed an open letter to President
Cleveland, asking him to urge Con.
grcss to protect women in their rights
as citizens, and especially in then
rights to vote.
Mrs. +. A. WHITAKER editor Of the
woman's department of the ~ T.
Former, gives excellent suggestions
for summer amusement combined
with instruction. such as collecting
and preparing specimens of insects
sea-mosses, shells, birds eggs, miner
ais, grasses, flowers and other natural
objects; also the study of botany
especially by the children of farmers
who have access to many wild hower'i
also, for those who have even few
days by the sea. the collection ana
preserving Of sca-mosses
HELEN S. ABBOTT, Of Philadelphia
has been elected a member OF the
Philosophical Society in that city OF
which Ben Franklin was one oil
the founders Only SIX women nave
been elected during tho one hundred
and twenty years of the society's en
istence.i The first lady was Frankllns
friend, the Princess Dashkoh Inc
Others were Mrs. Mary Someryllls'
Maria Mitchell, Mrs Agassiz, and Mrs,
Carl Seller, of Philadelphia, author "
1.-The Voice and Singing. miss
Abbott is admitted for what she has
done in analytical chemistry.
MRs. ID. G. CRoIY C.Jennie June !
has been made president OF Mrs. d
r. Ncwby's Woman Endowment CAV,
tie Company. The company has ,,''u
its certificates Of incorporation in New
Jersey, and has a capital stock %
one million five hundred thousand do',
lars, divided into three thousan'
shares of FIVE hundred dollars eac,I
The company has control OF he"ii